Javier Pérez-Ramírez (born 28 October 1974) is a Professor of Catalysis and Chemical Engineering at

ETH Zurich (colloquially) , former_name = eidgenössische polytechnische Schule , image = ETHZ.JPG , image_size = , established = , type = Public , budget = CHF 1.896 billion (2021) , rector = Günther Dissertori , president = Joël Mesot , ac ...

Career

Javier Pérez-Ramírez (JPR) studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Alicante, and later obtained his

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at TU Delft (2002). He worked for Norsk Hydro and Yara International and returned to academia as an

ICREA ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, is a foundation jointly promoted by the Catalan Government through its Department of Innovation, Universities and Enterprise, and the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI) ...

research professor at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, related to the

Rovira i Virgili University University of Rovira i Virgili ( ca, Universitat Rovira i Virgili; , es, Universidad Rovira y Virgili; URV) is located in the Catalan cities of Tarragona and Reus, Spain. Its name is in honour of Antoni Rovira i Virgili. The University of Ro ...

(2005-2009). Since 2010, he is Full Professor of Catalysis Engineering at the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. In 2018 he became visiting professor and director of th
Flagship Green Energy Program
at th
National University of Singapore
He is Editorial Board Chair of Green Chemistry, and sits on the editorial board of

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Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

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, Energy Technology, and Catalysis Communications. Since 2018, Pérez-Ramírez is president of th
Catalysis Section
of the Swiss Chemical Society. He is Swiss representative of th

Since 2020, he direct
NCCR Catalysis
a national center of competence in research funded by th
Swiss National Science Foundation

Research

Pérez-Ramírez's central research focuses on the fundamental design and technical development of new

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and reactor engineering concepts, favoring the more efficient and

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manufacturing within the

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. He has developed novel catalysts for the gas-phase oxidation of hydrogen chloride (

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) and has done major and groundbreaking contributions in the rational design of hierarchical zeolites.

Awards

Pérez-Ramírez's work of nearly 480 articles and 17 patents has been recognized by several major prizes, including the Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis (2019), Xingda Lecturship of Peking University (2018), Sustainable Energy Award (2017), the Beilby Medal and Prize (2014), the EFCATS Young Researcher Award (2013), the DECHEMA Otto Roelen Medal (2012), the Andrew Main lectureship (2013), the UOP-Honeywell Invitational Lectureship (2012), and the KNCV Prijs voor Katalyse (2003). In 2013, he has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

References

1974 births Living people Spanish chemists Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry {{chemist-stub